Earcandy detects File Manager as a music player and doesn't know what Amarok is, and other glitches

[Sjors Gielen]

Binary package hint: earcandy

When I just ran Earcandy, it told me it detected two applications, Firefox and the file manager. It saw the file manager as an audio player. Even though Amarok was running (but not playing), it did not show up; I also couldn't add a rule for it. When I later restarted Earcandy, Amarok showed up as an unknown application and the File Manager was still the music player, just like Pavucontrol, the PulseAudio volume control. Setting Amarok as a music player did not update the UI; when I restarted the application later, Amarok showed correctly (but without any icon) and the volume control didn't show up anymore.

Expected behaviour: It should recognize Amarok as a music player (even if it's not playing?), it should not think the file manager (I don't think I had any running, let alone playing sound, but maybe it thought plasma-desktop was a file manager?) is a music player, Pavucontrol should not be recognized as a music player, and the UI should update correctly when I change settings. Also, it would be cool if either the "list of running applications" would be renamed to the "list of applications playing audio", or even better, if applications not playing audio would show up.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 13 03:28:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: earcandy 0.5~bzr75-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.16-generic
SourcePackage: earcandy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic x86_64

[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

Please check 0.9 it has better checking including PID matching from pa

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

Please try to reproduce with the latest release available in Natty.